Comments on: Cookie monsters http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/08/15/cookie-monsters-2/ by Jeff Jarvis Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:59:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Web 2.0 Newspapers » Roundup, Part 3: Privacy, Neutrality, Recognition and Other Interweb-Blogosphere Question Marks http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/08/15/cookie-monsters-2/#comment-111741 Web 2.0 Newspapers » Roundup, Part 3: Privacy, Neutrality, Recognition and Other Interweb-Blogosphere Question Marks Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:07:24 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/08/15/cookie-monsters-2/#comment-111741 [...] Just ask AOL User No. 4417749 (via BoingBoing, NYTimes, ZDNet and whole lot more including BuzzMachine on Internet cookies and stupidity ruining a good thing), with or without the CEO's personal apology phone call (thanks, Techdirt). Then again, biz blogger Bernhard Wagner writes that bloggers are in some cases the watchdogs, and bound by journalistic ethics if they take on such a role: blog post in brief, longer piece at the Times of London. ("Watchdogs, Blogs and Wild Hogs " might be a good bet for further reading, thanks Poynter.)  [...] [...] Just ask AOL User No. 4417749 (via BoingBoing, NYTimes, ZDNet and whole lot more including BuzzMachine on Internet cookies and stupidity ruining a good thing), with or without the CEO's personal apology phone call (thanks, Techdirt). Then again, biz blogger Bernhard Wagner writes that bloggers are in some cases the watchdogs, and bound by journalistic ethics if they take on such a role: blog post in brief, longer piece at the Times of London. ("Watchdogs, Blogs and Wild Hogs " might be a good bet for further reading, thanks Poynter.)  [...]

]]> By: Len Ellis http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/08/15/cookie-monsters-2/#comment-111721 Len Ellis Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:23:24 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/08/15/cookie-monsters-2/#comment-111721 Once again, a security breach is being confused with a privacy problem. Data security and informational privacy are two different matters and until these are clearly differentiated, reporters will continue to use the former to raise the specter of the latter. So, the critique of Hansell is on point. At the same time, the rational benefit of cookies, relevance, is not likely to overcome the emotional reaction to surveillance. Champion cookies and stored search data all you want, but this won't change until consumers embrace transparency (publicity) and the opportunity to "advertise themselves" to marketers. Once again, a security breach is being confused with a privacy problem. Data security and informational privacy are two different matters and until these are clearly differentiated, reporters will continue to use the former to raise the specter of the latter. So, the critique of Hansell is on point.

At the same time, the rational benefit of cookies, relevance, is not likely to overcome the emotional reaction to surveillance. Champion cookies and stored search data all you want, but this won’t change until consumers embrace transparency (publicity) and the opportunity to “advertise themselves” to marketers.

]]> By: BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Cookie monsters http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/08/15/cookie-monsters-2/#comment-111235 BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Cookie monsters Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:40:50 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/08/15/cookie-monsters-2/#comment-111235 [...] Cookie monsters Read More: Ad, cookies, privacy [...] [...] Cookie monsters Read More: Ad, cookies, privacy [...]

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